To answer at this blog’s question, there are cases where a patch or patchset should reach the community even before its coding. The answer is the general “it depends”: it depends on what functionality is implementing the merging patchset, on how deeply changes...

Have you noticed the power of open source software? Have you made efforts on customizing an open source project licensed with a GPLvX license? Have you based your business on an open source project? The question now is: why you do really think that maintaining a...

As the name says, mainlining is the process that aim to get merged private modifications of a common codebase (mainline) into it. Open source projects thrives around a common codebase called mainline This is not a trivial point: the mainline is the place where the...